Here's another of my new horror mood home-made minis.
This is the vampire spaceship from the '80's Tobe Hooper sci-fi shocker Life force.
I made mine using a small paper umbrella from MoonBase Miss's bits chest and some wire all trimmed to shape and painted black.
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I took a few shots of the ship in Earth's orbit.
This is an original still from the movie. Have you seen it?
Oh, dear. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteMe too. What a movie. Everything's there Baron isn't it. Space. Vampires. Beauty. Chaos!
Delete"LifeForce" was a pretty good movie. Matilda May's costume designer should have won multiple awards.
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed Captain. The effects, costumes and make-up we're just terrific I agree.
DeleteAnother great build - well done. Not sure if I have seen that one, although the title does seem familiar.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Paul. Quick and easy this one. Now how to store it?
DeleteYep, fab movie, our local flea pit became a Cannon cinema, so I grew up on a diet of their films, check out the documentary about the Cannon film company, called "Electric Boogaloo - the wild untold story of Cannon film" I'll find a link for the trailer or even the movie if I'm lucky, it really is a bonkers documentary
ReplyDeleteGreat memories MJ! Cannon eh, there was one in Preston where I grew up!
Deletehttps://youtu.be/caHHy4p4OwU?si=38AVjr67BtAzJLhR
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. Late night viewing MJ. Ta.
DeleteThat's the whole documentary above if the link doesn't work just search the title on YouTube
ReplyDeleteThanks mate.
DeleteThe balls of wool really bring it to life! Bill
ReplyDeleteHa ha, they're from the undead flock!
DeleteVery good! I watched the movie recently on Blu-ray and wondered if anyone had tried to model the ship. I think a large-scale version with internal lighting would look magnificent!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that would look great Anon. I'll leave that model to the pros!
DeleteWelll, that's different. I don't know the movie but it looks like you really captured the essence of it Woodsy. Umbrella-based spaceship! - that's a first for me!
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Cheers. The other name for the movie is Space Vampires Ed. Well worth a watch.
DeleteIt looks like a Vorlon or Shadow ship from Babylon 5. It also reminds me of the Romulan Nero's ship from J.J.Abrams Star Trek movie.
ReplyDeleteI guesse, as Lifeforce came first, they copied its design style, or did it as an homage.
Really: fascinating Mish. Two ships I can't immediately recall.
DeleteChurchill was my favorite Shuttle modification
ReplyDeleteWill have to look that up.
DeleteI felt Lifeforce was the Quatermass and the Pit remake we were all waiting for!
ReplyDeleteI know my pal Alex Proyas was supposedly involved in a Quatermass remake at some point and I'm actually glad it never came to pass!
There are plenty of unfilmed stories in development hell and we rarely need another remake of something that was OK to begin with!
Yes, Looey, I agree: the whole London in wild chaos thing and the central energy source is so Pit! I wonder if the Lifeforce team were thinking of it? It could be the same scene! I also think of Species when watching Lifeforce, Giger's space vamp flick.
DeleteJay Chladek did Churchill, and wrote on space stations
ReplyDeletehttps://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/perhaps-my-next-kitbash-1-72-churchill-from-lifeforce.122646/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WQsm-12jhlI
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/lifeforce-hms-churchill-space-shuttle-filming-min-1286-c-06a4d5a881
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/shut_chal.cfm
What Shuttle should have been
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzzJ7ADcHh0